[Assist] ec fonts

Jorge Araya Navarro elcorreo at deshackra.com
Fri Mar 18 03:07:47 GMT 2016


It really sucks if you ask me! Sandly it was never clear to me how was people supposed to switch to
something like Xelatex in software compilation and packaging that ran latex compilations as one of
their steps.

El lunes 14 de marzo del 2016 a las 1925 horas, Ramana Kumar escribió:

> So, is there still no progress on this issue? I am going back to the
> standard Arch Linux texlive package once again...
>
> On 16 November 2015 at 08:45, André Silva <emulatorman at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/14/2015 03:08 AM, Michał Masłowski wrote:
>> >>>> I repeat this question one more time: Why does Parabola remove ec
>> fonts
>> >>>> from its version of TexLive, and how is it being done exactly?
>> >>>> (So I can figure out how to patch them back in.)
>> >>>> There is no freedom-related reason for removing them. (See
>> >>>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ecfonts.)
>> >>>
>> >>> ok, i'll fix it then
>> >
>> > Make sure the package complies with the license, it didn't before it was
>> > removed.  (This is a problem of Arch packaging, not upstream.)
>> >
>> > The other problem is that it includes code from otherwise nonfree fonts
>> > and we don't know if the author had permission to use them under a
>> > different license.
>>
>> license problems [0] are in the latest version of Arch's texlive-core
>> tarball yet, therefore we should do the three things that you mentioned
>> [1] to solve this issue.
>>
>> [0]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/TeXLive_freedom_verification#MeX_license
>> [1]:https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/assist/2015-April/000439.html
>>
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